28 Amazing Facts About Porn

1.

One in five men, or 20%, admit to watching porn online at work.

2.

About 13% of women do.

3.

Comcast Cable accidentally aired 37 seconds of porn during Super Bowl XLIII.

4.

There is currently no diagnosis of pornography addiction in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

5.

The 1988, People vs. Freeman court cases stated that adult film production, as long as it involves consenting adults, was protected as free speech under the First Amendment.

6.

In 2001, a German hacker from Dresden streamed a sex channel on a supermarket's big screen.

7.

Porn was mistakenly aired for an entire 10 minutes in the background during a Swedish news report on Syria in January 2013.

8.

The size of the porn industry is around $100 billion.

9.

Between $10 billion and $12 billion of that comes from the United States.

10.

The word “pornography” is from the Greek words porne (prostitute) and graphos (to write or to record).

11.

The porn industry has seen an 80% reduction in DVD sale caused by free porn sites.

12.

Porn revenue is larger than all of the most profitable professional sport franchises combined.

13.

There have been 22 reported HIV cases in the porn industry in the United States.

14.

Twelve percent of websites on the Internet are pornographic.

15.

Over 40 million Americans are regular visitors to porn sites.

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One in three porn visitors is a woman.

17.

While viewing porn, men tend to focus on a woman’s eyes and lips over breasts or genitals.

18.

Nearly one in four Internet search queries is about porn. That’s 68 million a day.

19.

Over 35% of all Internet downloads are pornographic.

20.

According to a study by the Journal of Economic Perspective, Utah had the most per capita porn subscriptions. Montana had the lowest rate of porn subscriptions.

21.

There are around 42 million porn websites.

22.

Film production of pornography began immediately after the invention of the motion picture in 1895.

23.

The San Fernando Valley has been a pioneering region for producing porn since the 1970s, and a large amount of porn is still filmed there. In Europe, Budapest is considered the industry hub.

24.

Pornography is different from erotica. Erotica portrays sexuality in high-art, which focuses on feelings and emotions. Pornography focuses on sex in a sensational manner and emphasizes the physical act to arouse a quick reaction.

25.

After WWI, porn movies were called “stag movies” and could be seen only at men-only parties.

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While 25%–33% of those who watch Internet porn are women, they make up only 2% of paying porn site subscribers.

27.

On average, 50% of hotel guests order porn on their televisions.

28.

In North Korea and Iran, producing and distributing porn is punishable by death.